Assessment Rationale:

There are four known locations and the area of occupancy is smaller than 20 km2, but there is no current major threat and no reason to suppose that the extent of occurrence, area of occupancy, quality of habitat, number of locations, number of sub-populations or the number or mature individuals are declining or extremely fluctuating. Therefore, it is assessed as Near Threatened, almost meeting criteria B.

Geographic Range:

This species is endemic to the island of La Gomera. It lives restricted to a single valley in the north of the island. This species is recorded from four locations and five sites.

Regions:
Spain - Canaries

Extent of Occurrence (EOO):
(km2)

Area of Occupancy (AOO):
(km2)

Elevation Lower Limit:
100 (m)

Elevation Upper Limit:
1100 (m)

Biogeographic Realms:
Paleartic

Presence:
Extant

Origin:
Endemic Canaries

Seasonality:
Resident

Population:

There are no data on the population size or trend.

Habitat and Ecology

This species lives in the dry temperate shrub vegetation (Piso basal) and Fayal-Brezal.